Open AccessMeasurements of cortical interstitium in biopsies from human kidney grafts: how representative and how reproducible?
Author(s) -
Anne Ringer Ellingsen
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
nephrology, dialysis, transplantation/nephrology dialysis transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.654
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1460-2385
pISSN - 0931-0509
DOI - 10.1093/ndt/17.5.788
Subject(s) - medicine , kidney , reproducibility , renal cortex , cortex (anatomy) , pathology , biopsy , stereology , human kidney , urology , kidney disease , anatomy , biology , statistics , mathematics , neuroscience
The aim of the study was to evaluate how well a biopsy from one region of a human renal allograft represented biopsies from other regions regarding the renal interstitial tissue assessed by stereology. Furthermore, we wanted to evaluate the reproducibility of the measurements.